The facilitator was responsible for making and employing roadside bombs. He armed and moved insurgents across the province and provided information on Afghan government officials for insurgent attacks.

-- A combined force captured a Taliban facilitator and one suspected insurgent in the Qalat district of Zabul province.

-- A combined force captured a Taliban leader and detained seven suspects in the Chamkani district of Paktia province.

In Afghanistan operations yesterday:

-- In the Panjwa’i district of Kandahar province, coalition forces removed a homemade bomb and discovered 150 pounds of marijuana.

-- A combined force confiscated a cache of bomb-making components containing 1,600 pounds of ammonium nitrate, 300 pounds of potassium and 200 pounds of aluminum powder during a patrol in the Nawaw district of Ghazni province.